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Display of coordinates on GPS 67i

2022975
5 days ago

All,

Garmin user for about 25 years. Etrex and Inreach units. Testing the GPS 67i today, and found that the location fields give the position of the cursor, not the GPS itself. You can make the cursor go to thew current location by pressing the QUIT button. Intuitive its not but it works. But if te cursor is somewhere else, the location you read is NOT the location of the unit.

None of this is documented in the manual. Which, by the way, is enough to get someone killed. The machine's location is in the real world./ The cursor's location is imaginary.

On the Inreach, the "location" display always shows the location of the unit. When you moved the cursor, a separate window with its position appeared.

Questions for the group: 1 Am I write about this. 2 Is there any way to set the dashboard so it always reads the position of the unit, regardless of where the cursor is?

If not, I think I will send it back. The purpose of a GPS, after all, is to tell you where you are: the purpose of the Inreach is to tell rescuers where you are. If it can't do that, it is not a GPS.

Thanks in advance.

J.

  

   

  • 0 4 days ago

    Update on 13 May. The problem is in the dashboard on the map, which says "location" but reads the plotted cursor position rather than the GPS position of the unit. When you switch to the compass or trip pages the cursor is returned to the location of the unit, and reads the true location. This is helpful, but it also means that if you have, say, used the cursor to get info about a waypoint, the location on the map page is different from the location on the compass page. This seems to be a dangerous bug. One solution would be to add a separate field for cursor position, as on the Inreach.

    I also encountered another coordinate-display bug. When you set the position display to decimal degrees, the compass and trip pages remain in degrees plus decimal minutes. The map page displays decimal degrees when the cursor is off the current location, and degrees plus decimal minutes when it is on. This is a real nuisance if you8 are gathering data in decimal degrees.

    Good Garmin folks, are you going to address these issues?

    Thanks,  

    J.

  • 0 4 days ago

    If you are talking about the map page when you move the cursor, then press enter, that is normal operation. If you want to see your current location on the map page select a dashboard, then select one of the fields or boxes to show location selected. You can do the same on the compass and trip computer pages too. However the map page will show the location of the cursor when you pan the arrow. This is so you can see the location of other places. It will show the position of the cursor, the bearing and the distance.The satellite page will always show your current location as well as.

  • 0 4 days ago in reply to 2022975

    What software version does your device have? It should be 9.10. My unit works fine with regard to the issues you are describing. I would call Garmin support to help you sort it out. 

  • 0 2 days ago in reply to Snow_Leopard

    I agree, no problem with the device.

    When you move the cursor the device doesn't think it has moved, it's simply data the user can use for some purpose e.g., tell a hunting partner where they should meet up.